Licensed Teacher Content | September 2006

Tip of the Month

Using Head and Neck Healing in Class

We’ve said it before: The Head is one of the most challenging body parts to effortlessly integrate into whole-body movement. Use the power of visualization and intent to integrate your head with the rest of the body.

What does this mean? Imagine and see your spine lengthening up and out before you sink and rise. Visualize any symbol that will bring space in between vertebrae and flexibility to your entire spine.

Examples:

  • The white feather you used at White Belt when exploring the Alexander Technique.
  • A string of pearls.
  • A giraffe’s long neck
  • A hand reaching up
  • A tail

Visualizing before you move imprints a picture into the brain of every cell. Create the picture and your physical body has an energetic energy field it can move into, gaining energetic support to physically shift action.

The pearl is: Imagine (see), then Do (experience).